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We are thrilled to introduce one of the latest AWS Labs projects for enabling client-side encryption for Amazon DynamoDB in Java. This library is designed to support encryption and signing of your data when stored in Amazon DynamoDB. A typical use of this library is when you are using DynamoDBMapper, where transparent encryption and signing […]

For the final installment of our Amazon DynamoDB series, we are going to look at the new expression support. There are two types of expressions used by DynamoDB. First you can use expressions to update specific fields in an item. The other way is to use expressions on puts, updates, or deletes to prevent the […]

This week, we are running a series of five daily blog posts that will explain new DynamoDB changes and how they relate to the AWS SDK for .NET. This is the fourth blog post, and today we will be discussing the Object Persistence Model. Object Persistence Model The Object Persistence Model API provides a simple […]

This week, we are running a series of five daily blog posts that will explain new DynamoDB changes and how they relate to the AWS SDK for .NET. This is the third blog post, and today we will be discussing conversion schemas. Conversion Schemas Document doc = new Document(); doc["Id"] = 1; doc["Product"] = "DataWriter"; […]

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no minimum usage commitments. Ruby on Rails introduced the asset pipeline in version 3.1. The Rails asset pipeline […]

This week we are running a series of five daily blog posts that will explain new DynamoDB changes and how they relate to the .NET SDK. This is blog post number 2, and today we will be looking at the Document Model API. Document Model Yesterday, we learned about Amazon DynamoDB’s new data types such […]

Last week, Amazon DynamoDB added support for JSON document data structures. With this update, DynamoDB now supports nested data in the form of lists (L type) and maps (M type). Also part of this update was native support for booleans (BOOL type) and nulls (NULL type). This week, we will be running a series of […]

In the previous blog, Introducing DynamoDB Document API (Part 1), we saw how to program against the DynamoDB Document API and produce code that is both easy to write and read. But why is the API called the Document API, and how are JSON-style documents supported? This perhaps can best be explained, well, with code! […]

AWS re:Invent 2014 is coming up fast. Steve Roberts and I are heading to Las Vegas and will be presenting a session where we discuss some of the latest features of the AWS SDK for .NET. We’ll also be hanging out in the Expo area at the AWS Developer Resources booth, so please drop by […]

To begin our series on using Ruby on Rails with Amazon Web Services, we are going to start at the beginning: deploying our application. Today, we will be deploying our application to AWS OpsWorks. Following along with this post, you should be able to deploy our "Todo Sample App" to AWS using OpsWorks, with your […]